The Opportunists (2012)

In The Opportunists, Walken tries to go straight by playing a retired safecracker, a small town ethnic bub named Vic who scrapes together a living as an auto mechanic and treats his barkeep girlfriend, played by a likably no nonsense Cyndi Lauper, with wholesome chivalry. But when his cousin (Peter McDonald) shows up from Ireland, Vic is lured into hatching one more crime. It's a good thing, too, since Walken embodies normalcy like a ghost impersonating flesh; the motions look genuine, but something is missing. ''The Opportunists'' is skillfully made, yet the film would have been better if it had tapped a bit of that Walken madness to bust out of its drab, poky little people symmetries.